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Thomas Graf f8ff182c71 rtnetlink: Link address family API 
Each net_device contains address family specific data such as
per device settings and statistics. We already expose this data
via procfs/sysfs and partially netlink.

The netlink method requires the requester to send one RTM_GETLINK
request for each address family it wishes to receive data of
and then merge this data itself.

This patch implements a new API which combines all address family
specific link data in a new netlink attribute IFLA_AF_SPEC.
IFLA_AF_SPEC contains a sequence of nested attributes, one for each
address family which in turn defines the structure of its own
attribute. Example:

   [IFLA_AF_SPEC] = {
       [AF_INET] = {
           [IFLA_INET_CONF] = ...,
       },
       [AF_INET6] = {
           [IFLA_INET6_FLAGS] = ...,
           [IFLA_INET6_CONF] = ...,
       }
   }

The API also allows for address families to implement a function
which parses the IFLA_AF_SPEC attribute sent by userspace to
implement address family specific link options.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-11-17 11:28:24 -08:00
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9p net/9p: Return error on read with NULL buffer 2010-10-28 09:08:49 -05:00
802 net/802: add __rcu annotations 2010-10-25 13:09:44 -07:00
8021q vlan: remove ndo_select_queue() logic 2010-11-16 11:17:42 -08:00
appletalk Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-04-11 14:53:53 -07:00
atm net/atm: Remove unnecessary casts of netdev_priv 2010-11-17 10:37:52 -08:00
ax25 net: ax25: fix information leak to userland 2010-11-10 10:14:33 -08:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: fix not setting security level when creating a rfcomm session 2010-11-09 00:56:10 -02:00
bridge bridge: add RCU annotations to bridge port lookup 2010-11-15 11:13:18 -08:00
caif caif: Remove noisy printout when disconnecting caif socket 2010-11-03 18:50:04 -07:00
can can-bcm: fix minor heap overflow 2010-11-12 14:07:14 -08:00
ceph ceph: fix num_pages_free accounting in pagelist 2010-10-20 15:38:23 -07:00
core rtnetlink: Link address family API 2010-11-17 11:28:24 -08:00
dcb
dccp dccp ccid-2: Separate option parsing from CCID processing 2010-11-15 07:12:01 +01:00
decnet Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-11-14 11:57:05 -08:00
dns_resolver DNS: If the DNS server returns an error, allow that to be cached [ver #2] 2010-08-11 17:11:28 +00:00
dsa phylib: available for any speed ethernet 2010-08-11 23:03:50 -07:00
econet net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
ethernet net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
ieee802154 ieee802154: Fix possible NULL pointer dereference in wpan_phy_alloc 2010-05-23 23:11:07 -07:00
ipv4 network: tcp_connect should return certain errors up the stack 2010-11-17 10:54:35 -08:00
ipv6 udp: use atomic_inc_not_zero_hint 2010-11-16 11:17:43 -08:00
ipx BKL: introduce CONFIG_BKL. 2010-10-21 15:44:13 +02:00
irda Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial 2010-10-24 13:41:39 -07:00
iucv [S390] cleanup lowcore access from external interrupts 2010-10-25 16:10:19 +02:00
key net: return operator cleanup 2010-09-23 14:33:39 -07:00
l2tp l2tp: kzalloc with swapped params in l2tp_dfs_seq_open 2010-11-01 06:56:02 -07:00
lapb
llc net/llc: storing negative error codes in unsigned short 2010-09-16 22:38:23 -07:00
mac80211 Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-11-16 09:17:12 -08:00
netfilter netfilter: allow hooks to pass error code back up the stack 2010-11-17 10:54:34 -08:00
netlabel net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
netlink netlink: fix netlink_change_ngroups() 2010-10-24 16:25:39 -07:00
netrom net: sk_sleep() helper 2010-04-20 16:37:13 -07:00
packet packet: Enhance AF_PACKET implementation to not require high order contiguous memory allocation (v4) 2010-11-16 10:26:47 -08:00
phonet phonet: remove the unused variable pn 2010-10-20 01:55:54 -07:00
rds rds: Fix rds message leak in rds_message_map_pages 2010-11-08 12:17:09 -08:00
rfkill rfkill: remove dead code 2010-11-15 13:24:06 -05:00
rose Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2010-09-27 01:03:03 -07:00
rxrpc Add a dummy printk function for the maintenance of unused printks 2010-08-12 09:51:35 -07:00
sched classifier: report statistics for basic classifier 2010-11-08 12:17:05 -08:00
sctp net: avoid limits overflow 2010-11-10 12:12:00 -08:00
sunrpc convert get_sb_single() users 2010-10-29 04:16:28 -04:00
tipc net: tipc: fix information leak to userland 2010-11-09 09:25:46 -08:00
unix af_unix: optimize unix_dgram_poll() 2010-11-08 13:50:09 -08:00
wanrouter fix printk typo 'faild' 2010-08-09 11:25:17 +02:00
wimax Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6 2010-05-20 21:04:44 -07:00
wireless Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6 2010-11-16 09:17:12 -08:00
x25 x25: Prevent crashing when parsing bad X.25 facilities 2010-11-12 12:44:42 -08:00
xfrm xfrm: make xfrm_bundle_ok local 2010-10-21 03:09:46 -07:00
compat.c net: Limit socket I/O iovec total length to INT_MAX. 2010-10-28 11:47:52 -07:00
Kconfig ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
Makefile ceph: factor out libceph from Ceph file system 2010-10-20 15:37:28 -07:00
nonet.c llseek: automatically add .llseek fop 2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
socket.c net: net_families __rcu annotations 2010-11-12 13:27:25 -08:00
sysctl_net.c net: Remove unnecessary returns from void function()s 2010-05-17 23:23:14 -07:00
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